[PHPLondon-discuss] Requirements experiment & template engines

[David Heath]

hi marcus,

thanks for the write up... I really enjoyed the ensuing discussion after
your talk.

On a completely different subject, I was talking to someone about
templating systems and we started talking about the "use php for as your
templating system" debate .. my memory failed me at the time .. I was
trying to remember the name of this project:

http://phpsavant.com/yawiki/

which maybe others of you have already seen. Would be interested in
opinions. My only misgiving about this approach is that I would be
unable to prevent people from putting php code into templates.

Another interesting thing I came across recently was a templating system
called clearsilver which is written in C. It's used as the templating
engine for trac .. (a version of cvstrac which works with subversion).

The advantage I saw of using clearsilver would be that your templates
are not tied to a particular programming language. The clearsilver
library has bindings for several languages (although not PHP). On the
downside, the syntax sucks a bit. 

links:
http://www.clearsilver.net/
http://www.edgewall.com/products/trac/

dave

On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 18:17, Marcus Baker wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I've written up a mini-report...
> 
> http://www.phplondon.org/wiki/RequirementsInTenMinutes
> 
> yours, Marcus
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